When we need to lose weight, it’s really common to get swept up into the mindset that we need to make radical changes. While this may be true, it may not be healthy to make such a drastic change in the way you eat. In fact, you may be increasing your odds of failure by [...]
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Easy Diet Changes
August 7th, 2008 — , being overweight, black coffee, calories, diet, diet changes, diet soda, drastic change, failure, goals, healthy eating, lifestyle change, mindset, odds, radical changes, splenda, sugary drinks, target weight from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Are Carbs Really That Bad?
August 5th, 2008 — , bad carbs, breakfast cereals, carb diet, carbohydrates, cereal, death sentence, fad diets, fiber, good carbs, healthy eating, little sugar, little time, low calorie, nutrition, oatmeal, refined flour, simple answer, smart solution, sugar content, ways to lose weight, weight gain, whole grain bread, whole grain flour, whole grains from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Out of every food on earth, in the past few years, there has been no other food as demonized as the ones that contain carbs. There are so many fad diets that focus on completely removing carbs from your life - but is this a smart solution? The simple answer is no - it’s not [...]
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August 4th, 2008 — , Emeril Lagasse, Shape magazine, Weight-Loss Diary column, Working Out, calorie deficit, healthy eating, intensity intervals, lean protein, maintaining weight loss from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
With the start of summer’s last month, I’ve set a new health and fitness goal for myself: In the now-famous words of Chef Emeril Lagasse, my goal is to kick everything up a notch. It’s not a response to the…
Roundup: First Sunday of August
August 3rd, 2008 — , Exercise, Weight Loss Journal, animals at the zoo, bulldog run, coffee coffee, delicious way, diet, diet detox, diet foods, fitness health, food recipes, getting fit, goals, guest chef, health network, healthy eating, healthy habits, lazy man, memorial scholarship, moderate exercise, ncn, obesity research, smoothie recipes, thin style, weekend reading, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network this week checkout these posts:
How do you know if you’re properly hydrated? Journal of Healthy Living posts for Proper Hydration: Clear Urine Is Best.
Fat Man Unleashed asks Why Are We Fatter Than the Animals at the Zoo?
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The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person by Judith Beck
August 1st, 2008 — , Book Review, Motivation, appetites, beck, brains, cognitive behavior therapy, cravings, diet, diet industry, dieters, fad diets, food choices, healthy eating, lifestyle changes, mental concerns, mental health industry, next level, premise, researcher, shelves, thin person, vicious circle, vicious cycles, willpower from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
This is an incredible book by Judith Beck, the daughter of a famed researcher that revolutionized the mental health industry. Like father, like daughter, Beck is poised to make some big changes in the diet industry, using the same techniques. Beck’s philosophy focuses on Cognitive Behavior Therapy or CBT. This is a term that means [...]
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July 31st, 2008 — , Diets, Exercise, Motivation, bliss, cheese, diet, exercise plan, few minutes, first bite, food substitution, healthy eating, helpful tips, lifestyle changes, lifetime, old favorites, palate, pizza, rabbit, rest of your life, siren call, target, trigger food, weight loss, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
When you first start a diet, it’s easy to get all excited about the amount of weight you’re losing and how great you look. Unfortunately, most of us reach our goals and then go off of our diets. Within a few months, we may be back where we started, or in many cases, worse off. [...]
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July 30th, 2008 — , Champion of My Heart, Pavlov, Roxanne Hawn, classical conditioning, coping strategies, dog training, emotional eating, healthy eating, operant conditioning from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Today, I’m thrilled to welcome Roxanne Hawn as my guest blogger. Roxanne is a fellow freelance writer who writes frequently about pets and other topics for a variety of newspapers and national magazines. She also blogs about her adventures in…
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July 24th, 2008 — , Corn, grilled peppers, healthy eating, kids and nutrition, mashed potatoes, picky eaters, steak from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I don’t mean to go on and on about the same topic, but this is just too weird not to mention. If you read my recent post about my children’s aversion to salad, you know that my picky-eater son turns…
The Salad Incident
July 22nd, 2008 — , Clean Plate Club, Kids, Salad, food aversion, food choices, healthy eating, vegetables from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
My kids had dinner at a friend’s house recently, during which she served a delicious-looking meal of homemade pizza and salad. But when it came time to dole out the salad, both of my kids took pizza and declined the…
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July 18th, 2008 — , Health, Studies, healthy eating, nutrition from Peter @ Quick To Fit
One thing that I’ve struggled with for some time is controlling my portion sizes when I eat. I tend to eat Goliath sized portions, fit for a giant.
One thing we’ve done at times in our house is to buy foods packaged in smaller portions. We buy the 100 calorie packs, smaller versions of candy [...]
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Review of the South Beach Diet Supercharged
July 18th, 2008 — , Book Review, Diets, Losing Weight, South Beach Diet, adherents, bad information, diet books, diet plan, dr agatston, fads, fair share, fingertips, good job, grasp, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, information on nutrition, many things, new ways, powerhouse from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Out of all of the diets, by far the one that has received more than a fair share of adherents is the South Beach Diet. While there are plenty of those that may criticize this diet plan, for many others it does work and quite well. However, many feel that the diet is not strong [...]
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Retrain Those Taste Buds
July 16th, 2008 — , Diets, Low Carb, alternative ideas, bleh, calories, cardboard, cues, curry powder, diet, fatty foods, flavors, grilled chicken breast, healthy eating, lemon zest, moderation, old favorites, palate, peanut butter, persistence, spices, stalk of celery, taste buds, white pepper, yuck from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
One of the biggest problems for many people on diets is that the food simply doesn’t taste good. It’s very hard to stay motivated on your diet when you feel like you’re eating cardboard and bad cardboard at that. After years of indulging in your favorite fatty foods, your palate and taste buds have been [...]
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July 16th, 2008 — , Healthy Meals, Pavlov, healthy eating, organization, planning, saving money, snacks from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
In general, I’m a huge fan of planning — everything from healthy meals and snacks to when I’ll work out to when I’ll get my work done. Questionable food choices made “in the moment” are one of the biggest healthy-eating…
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July 14th, 2008 — , Meals, alternative ideas, brain, disaster, falling off the wagon, food scale, health plan, healthy eating, how many calories, new health, nutrition, nutritionist, portion control, signals, stomach, trigger food, weight loss from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Trying to map out a new health plan can be difficult, especially when you are used to overeating on a regular basis. Many of us don’t even realize just how much we eat and how this can affect our bodies. The key to weight loss is the simple formula of calories in - calories burned. [...]
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July 14th, 2008 — , Amy Hendel, Fat Famiies Thin Families, Kids, Shape magazine, Weight Loss Diary, emotional eating, family nutrition, healthy eating, healthy eating plans, nutrition from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
When I overhauled my own eating habits last year during my Shape column, my family’s reaction ranged from polite support to downright mutiny; in fact, the words “kicking and screaming” come to mind. See, they were OK with me changing,…
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July 13th, 2008 — , 100 Pushups, Exercise, Meals, Motivation, Pushups, apple juice, cacao, calories, chocolate facts, comrade in arms, delusions, diet, emotional eating, fitness health, food budget, fruit drinks, fruits and vegetables, goals, health network, healthy eating, lazy man, magnesium rich foods, ncn, nutrition, orange juice, push up, push-ups, pushup, roadblock, roadblocks, teenage son, using electricity, weight loss, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
Welcome to the Sunday roundup. I hope everybody has had a good weekend so far and that you are all staying healthy and fit.
Check out my Trophy Jack Crevalle. Sf Boater is paying for fish stories with pictographic evidence. Tell everyone you know about my trophy catch. If it gets the most unique visitors out [...]
3 Ways to Avoid Middle Age Weight Gain
July 10th, 2008 — , 10 000 steps, Exercise, activities, battle of the bulge, bonkers, calories, diet, doing laundry, eating habits, empty nester, estrogen, healthy eating, hormone levels, hormones, middle age, million times, parents, passive victim, pedometer, stairs, weight gain, women age from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For years, many people have labored under the impression that middle aged weight gain is inescapable. Middle aged spread as it is commonly called is usually accepted as just hormonal, especially for women, and many people don’t take the steps that can actually prevent it. While there are some factors that can make you [...]
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July 10th, 2008 — , Breyers, Eat to Live, Fudgsicle, Melissa Kirdzik, Shape magazine, Skinny Cow, Snickers, Weight Loss Diary, Weight Watchers, diet brands, healthy eating from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Melissa Kirdzik, the dietitian who helped me shed 26 pounds last year as Shape magazine’s Weight-Loss Diary columnist, is back today to answer another healthy eating question that many of us face as we wander the supermarket aisles: Are products…
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Roadblocks to fitness
July 10th, 2008 — , Motivation, healthy eating, nutrition from QuickToFit @ Quick To Fit
Everyone has roadblocks on their road to fitness. For some, it is motivation. They just can’t get up the energy to go out and exercise. For others their roadblock might be health issues or an injury. Still others may not have the knowledge needed to overcome and make healthy choices.
I feel like I have the [...]
How to Stop Emotional Eating
July 9th, 2008 — , Comfort Food, binging, bridge, cold turkey, combating drug abuse, doctors, emotional crisis, emotional eating, exact time, food addiction, food journal, food rewards, habit, healthy eating, heroin addict, heroin addiction, learned activity, methadone, moderation, moods, stress eating, stress levels, trigger food, withdrawal symptoms from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
For many of us, it is a natural reaction to turn to food when we are upset, happy, sad or depressed. Over time, this reaction becomes a learned activity that we resort to without even realizing it. Whether your parents used food rewards when you were growing up or you learned the behavior on [...]
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July 8th, 2008 — , Food, Motivation, healthy eating, meme, nutrition from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I was tagged by the great deflabbifier over at Deflabbify yesterday in a new health fitness meme that asks:
What is your biggest health or fitness vice?
That’s an easy question to answer. I love pastries! Donuts, cheese danish, cinnamon rolls, bagels, cookies, toaster strudels, you name it. If it has a flaky crust and a sweet [...]
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So, how’s that dietary part of your weight loss plan going?
July 7th, 2008 — , healthy eating, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
FAIL!
It’s been a rough few days on the dietary front of my weight loss plan. I had planned on eating healthy, eating smaller portions, and eating six times a day instead of three mega-sized meals.
Over the 4th of July weekened I managed to eat unhealthy, eat mondo-sized portions and eat 2-3 huge meals every day. [...]
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Post 4th of July Roundup
July 6th, 2008 — , Exercise, Food, alcohol addiction, bbqs, caffeine, change of pace, dirty word, drink, family time, fitness health, friendly food, goals, gym, health goals, health network, healthy eating, high intensity, hotel food, hydration, lazy man, ncn, nutrition, nutrition fitness, rocco castellano, self discipline, smoothie king, ups, ups and downs, water, weight loss goals, wellness from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
How was everybody’s 4th of July? Did you enjoy your fireworks, BBQs, and family time? Better still did you all keep on your diets and stay focused on your health goals during the celebration?
From the Fitness Health Network this week were quite a few good articles in my opinion. Check them out:
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July 5th, 2008 — , Dining out, Health, Restaurant, healthy eating from Darlene @ Former Fat Guy Blog
Last week I shared some of my travel secrets on how I manage to eat healthy when traveling. This week I’m going to focus on eating away from home again - but this time more in the dining out arena. So this applies whether you are traveling as…
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Planning to Not Plan
July 3rd, 2008 — , Shape magazine, Washington University School of Medicine, Weight Loss Diary, healthy eating, meal planning, moderation, weekend eating from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Don’t you just love a nice three-day weekend? That bonus day may be good for the soul, but it turns out it’s not so great for the diet. Check out this study from the Washington University School of Medicine in…
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July 2nd, 2008 — , Body For Life, eating, healthy eating, nutrition, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I apologize if the title for this post is a bit crass, but the question I think is a valid one. How many times should you eat every day if you’re trying to lose weight?
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One thing I’ve done since embarking on my weight loss journey is changing the way that I eat. [...]
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How to Eat Healthy Without Feeling Deprived
July 2nd, 2008 — , Diets, binge, carbohydrates, cold turkey, cravings, diet, fact that people, falling off the wagon, fats, favorite foods, few days, food choices, goals, healthy eating, necessary balance, new food, phenomenon, proteins, regimen, rome, siren call, soda, sugar, vegetarianism from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
By far, the most common reason that diets fail is due to the fact that people simply feel too deprived and they lose sight of their goals. While we all want to lose weight and feel better, the siren call of our favorite foods can be so powerful that we abandon these dreams and cave [...]
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Fitness in Chaos
July 1st, 2008 — , Musings, challenges, fitness, healthy eating, kitchen remodel, summer vacation from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
While I’ve never been known as the world’s greatest housekeeper, I like a certain sense of order around me. I function best when the dishes are done, dinner is planned, beds are made and the laundry is moving along in…
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June 29th, 2008 — , 100 Pushups, Exercise, Pushups, baked goods, bloggers, blogosphere, colonoscopy, delicious recipe, detergent, diet, digestion, fitness health, footwork, free ebook, golfing, health network, healthier eating, healthy eating, healthy lifestyle, injury, laundry, lazy man, lifestyle check, loss weight, mailman, mind frame, nutrition fitness, plethora, push-ups, running in the rain, soda, wellness, wii, younger daughter from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
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June 27th, 2008 — , Minnesota State Fair, food on a stick, food temptations, fruit, healthy eating, summer eating from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
We’re huge baseball fans around here, so we were thrilled when my husband’s boss treated employees and their families to luxury box seats at a game this week. Not only were we seated practically on the field down the third…
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June 25th, 2008 — , Diets, amazon, burst, calories, candy bar, chips, daily intake, diet, healthy eating, how many calories, main meals, rcm, snack, snacking, snacks, target, urge from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
One of the major reasons that people have difficulty keeping on their diets is the urge to snack. For many of us, it’s hard to get through the day without having at least one snack. However, that one snack can easily turn into ten and before you know it you’re grazing all day long, adding [...]
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June 19th, 2008 — , Book Reviews, Books, Exercise, Health Blog Posts, Mateez, Matezs, Matisse, Omnivore, Rachel Matesz, Sally Fallon, The Garden of Eating, almost fit, diet, healthy eating, michael pollan, moderation, omnivorous diet, real food, real food in moderation, vegetarian books, vegetarian diet from Metroknow @ AlmostFit.com
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3 Ways to Easily Add More Fruits and Vegetables to Your Diet
June 19th, 2008 — , Diets, Meals, Sauces, alternative ideas, calories, chips, cottage cheese, daily rotation, dairy products, dips, eggs, fresh fruits, fruit and vegetables, fruit salsa, fruits and vegetables, healthy eating, low calorie, low sodium, nutrition, palate, pear, tomato juice, tortillas, tossed salad from Weight Ladder @ Weight Loss Journal
All of us know that we need to start eating healthier and get more fruits and vegetables into our diets. The hard part is actually doing it. For many people, it’s just hard to get past the taste. However, there are ways that you can easily add more servings of fruit or vegetables to [...]
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The 5 Most Common Diet Myths
June 17th, 2008 — , 100 years, Diets, advice books, balanced diet, carbohydrates, carbs, consciousness, dangerous conditions, diet, diet myths, effective weight loss, factoid, healthy eating, high starch foods, ketosis, medical conditions,